StarCraft II Heart of the Swarm-FLT

INFO: This is a standalone Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm (PC) release giving access to both Wings of Liberty as well as Heart of the Swarm

There is 5-Steps How to play offline

Installation Information

DISCLAIMER: Since parts of this solution requires online activity and updating the game we can't promise that this solution will work with future updates

HOW TO INSTALL

1) Unrar, burn or mount ISO2) Install the game while online, when asked to Activate select "I've Already Activated"

HOW TO TO PLAY OFFLINE

Run Fairlightflt-sc2hots.exe on the DVD, it must run with administrator priviledges. (you may need to temporarily disable any anti-virus software or similar you have

STEP 1: UPDATE STARCRAFT 2 TO LATEST VERSION

This step you must execute manually

Let the game update to latest version (2.0.6.25180 at the time of writing this)

Once game is fully updated (you will see the message 'Game is up to date you must press 'Play' and enter the game once to complete the installation, if you forget to do this you WONT be able to play offline afterwards. You dont need to do anything once inside, just look at the impressive Battle.net login prompt and then exit by pressing Escape

STEP 2: BLOCK SC2.EXE IN WINDOWS FIREWALL

We assume you are using Windows Firewall as your firewall and of course also that it is Enabled

Hit the Step2-button and the tool will block 'SC2.exe' in your Windows Firewall

STEP 3: COPY FILES

Hit the Step3-button and wait for a little while, this will deploy the battle.net cache files

STEP 4: GENERATE LICENSE

Hit the Step4-button and your license is generated and deployed to the windows registry

STEP 5: PLAY

Hit the Step5-button and the tool will launch StarCraft 2 and then shut itself down

When you see the 'Connecting to streaming server...' dialog just hit 'Cancel', this happens because of the firewall block

Once inside enter 'flttrash-mail.com' as your BATTLE.NET ACCOUNT NAME and hit 'CONNECT

The connection will fail but you will be offered to 'PLAY OFFLINE

NOTEOnce you have everything running you should consider making a desktop shortcut directtly to SupportSC2Switcher.exe, this seems to bypass the Blizzard Launcher and should keep you safe from potential fun-ruining future updates